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2 unusual facts about Pig's Bay


Bay of Pigs

:Distinguish from Pig's Bay, the site of a large Ministry of Defence site near Shoeburyness in Essex, England.

Southall rail crash

Power car 43173 was written off and scrapped at Pig's Bay, having sustained heavy damage during the accident.


2008 Chinese heparin adulteration

The raw material for the recalled heparin batches was processed in China from pig's intestines by the American pharmaceutical firm Scientific Protein Laboratories.

Arapawa Pig

The Arapawa Pig is a feral breed of domestic pig (Sus scrofa) found on Arapawa Island in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.

Babi ngepet

The association of boar or pig with magic concerning fortune probably originated from Javanese pre-Islamic and pre-Hindu-Buddhist beliefs that associate the boar or pig with domestic richness, fortune and prosperity, similar to its connections with ancient Javanese piggy bank.

Bánh hỏi

At the Gò Duối market in Xuân Lộc commune, Sông Cầu district, Phú Yên Province, one also finds bánh hỏi lòng heo Gò Duối, which is bánh hỏi with boiled pig offal.

Black Boneens

The term Boneen is Newfoundland Gaelic dialect for a young pig (derived from Dineen > Erse Gaelic).

Charles Fountaine

He married in 1918, Louisa Constance Catherine, daughter of Sir Douglas Maclean, of Hawke's Bay in New Zealand.

Chistorra

In the Aragonese Pyrenees there are two different sorts of txistorra; one of them made only of pork meat and another made of lungs, boned pig head and the pancreas, called berika.

Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary

The most common mammal species of this sanctuary are – Hoolock Gibbon, slow loris, Pig-tailed Macaque, Stump-tailed Macaque, Capped Langur, Asian Elephant, Tiger, Black Panther, Leopard, Gaur, Chinese Pangolin, Himalayan Black Bear, Himalayan Squirrel, Leopard Cat, Clouded Leopard, Porcupine, Crab Eating Mongoose, Sambar, Sun bear, Binturong, Barking deer, Golden cat, marbled cat etc.

Deputy Dawg

The other main characters are the ' varmints' Muskie Muskrat, Moley Mole, Possible 'Possum, Ty Coon, Vincent van Gopher, Pig Newton, and Dawg's boss the Sheriff, as well as Mrs. Deputy.

Dimitar Manchev

He is also known for the numerous roles on the stage, most notably as Kovadzhik in The Pig tails by Jaroslav Dietl, Shtatala in Tarelkin' death by Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin, Mr. Fratyu in Uncles by Ivan Vazov and Orgon in Tartuffe by Molière.

Empress of Blandings

"Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey", wherein we first meet the noble beast, tells of how she misses her first keeper, Wellbeloved, when he is sent to jail for a spell; her pining is worrisome to her master, with the big show approaching, until she is pepped up by James Belford's hog-calling techniques, returning to her trough with enough gusto to take her first Silver Medal.

Filth Pig

The title was allegedly derived from a statement made in the British Houses of Parliament, where bandleader Jourgensen was described as a filthy pig by MP Teddy Taylor.

Harcourt Mortimer Bengough

In his memoirs he gives an interesting account of his adventures in the realm of sport — pig-sticking, tiger-shooting, and pursuing other forms of game in India and elsewhere.

Hog calling

In "Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey", by P.G. Wodehouse the Empress of Blandings misses her first keeper, Wellbeloved, when he is sent to jail for a spell; her pining is worrisome to her owner (Lord Emsworth), with the big show approaching, until she is pepped up by James Belford's hog calling techniques, returning to her trough with enough gusto to take her first silver medal.

Horacena J. Taylor

Starting in the early 1970s, Taylor has worked extensively as a stage manager on numerous productions for the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) including The Sty of the Blind Pig, The First Breeze of Summer and The Brownsville Raid.

Iain Stirling

After being spotted at a gig, Iain has since presented the CBBC Channel along with his canine sidekick Hacker T. Dog from the CBBC TV show Scoop, and other sidekicks including Dodge the Dog, 'The Toad of Wisdom', and 'Pig With 'Tasche'.

John Keast Lord

Lordis said to have made a whaling voyage and been shipwrecked, and to have been for some years a trapper in Minnesota and the Hudson's Bay fur countries.

John Mennes

Mennes was himself satirised by John Denham, whose poem about Mennes going from Calais to Boulogne to "eat a pig" is mentioned by Samuel Pepys in his diary.

Julian Moreton

These hardships are recorded in Moreton's book and in Bishop Edward Feild's reports to the S.P.G. For example, one account records Moreton visiting Deadman's Bay some 30 miles away from his home, walking for 16 miles along the shore, living on bread and butter with salted fish alone, and expecting only two good meals in nine days.

Kay Dudman

The cavy family Caviidae includes the domestic guinea pig; and Dudman has given a home to and cared for several rescue guinea pigs over the years.

King Thrushbeard

They arrive at the minstrel's home, a house fit only for swine.

Larry Martyn

Martyn died on 7 August 1994 at home in St Mary's Bay, Kent, and was survived by his wife Hilary and their two daughters.

Le Pig-Al Patrol

The Inspector tries to stop a band of motorcyclists led by "Pig Al" from disturbing the peace.

Miniature effect

The first major use of the slurpasaur was in One Million B.C. (1940), which included a pig dressed as a triceratops, with the special effects in this film re-used often, such as in the 1955 movie King Dinosaur.

Moccus

"Moccus" is a Gaulish word for "pig" or "hog", and Moccus may have been the protector of boar hunters among the tribe of the Lingones, where he was invoked at the tribal centre, Langres.

Mount's Bay

Its half-moon shape is similar to that of Donegal Bay in Ireland and Cardigan Bay in Wales, although, unlike the aforementioned bays, Mount's Bay is relatively sheltered from the prevailing Atlantic westerlies.

Pig Business

Controversy also surrounds the half-owned Smithfield Foods pig sheds near the village of La Gloria, Mexico, where as many as 1,800 villagers living near the plant had already complained of respiratory problems and 400 had been treated before the 2009 swine flu outbreak.

Pig Business is a 2009 film by Tracy Worcester, a former actress and now an environmental campaigner.

Pig Goat Banana Cricket

The series was created by Dave Cooper and J. Ryan and was originally called "Pig Goat Banana Mantis".

Pig-footed bandicoot

The cause of the extinction remains uncertain: neither of the two most destructive introduced exterminator species, the fox and the rabbit, had yet arrived in south-west Western Australia when the pig-footed bandicoot disappeared from that area.

Pig-tailed macaque

Northern Pig-tailed Macaque, Macaca leonina (Bangladesh to Vietnam, south to northern Malaysia)

Pig's trotters

In the 1981 film Chariots of Fire, Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) and Sybil Gordon (Alice Krige) are out to dinner when Sybil orders "her favorite" and Harold says, "for two".

Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador

It is 130 kilometres from the capital city, St. John's, and is within easy distance of the scenic Cape Shore (including the Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve), the Irish Loop and St. Mary's Bay, Conception Bay, and the inner reaches of Placentia Bay.

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is a virus that causes a disease of pigs, called porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), also known as blue-ear pig disease (in Chinese, zhū láněr bìng 豬藍耳病).

Robin Hood's Bay

The Old St Stephen's Church, Fylingdales, on the hill side at Raw, above the village, replaced an ancient church which had Saxon origins and was demolished in about 1821 and was a dependent chapel of Whitby Abbey.

Sengkang Riverside Park

The 16 different fruit trees that can be found in the trail are Mangosteen Tree, Ordeal Tree, Custard Apple, Pomelo, Lime, Weeping Tea Tree, Island Lychee, Mango, Pond Apple Tree, Asam Tree, Java Olive Tree, Elephant Apple, Fish Killer Tree, Starfruit, Pig's Mango and Wine Palm.

Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet

In 1883 he won a Silver medal at the Smithfield Show as breeder of the best "Single Pig" in class LXXXVI; he lived at Wickham Market in Suffolk at the time.

Swine Not?

Buffett's friend, Helen Bransford, asked him to review her 25-page nonfiction manuscript describing her four years living at New York's Carlyle Hotel with her then-husband Jay McInerney, two children, and pet pig.

Table Bay

The best of them- Saldanha Bay- lacked fresh water and the only realistic alternatives- Simon's Bay and Houtbaai- were rightly inaccessible at the time and only marginally less exposed to the weather, which is notoriously bad often enough in the Cape Peninisula (see article on S.S. Maori and Seapoint).

Tanora

In the play Disco Pigs, Pig orders "Two Battur burgurs! Two Sauce! Two Chips! Two Peas! Two Tanora!".

The Full-Custom Gospel Sounds of the Reverend Horton Heat

"Nurture My Pig" and "Wiggle Stick" were included in the Redneck Rampage video game soundtrack.

The Pingry EP

The EP features various rough demos of songs that would later be featured on their first full-length album, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, as well as two live tracks recorded at The Blind Pig in Ann Arbor, Michigan (one of which was merely a banter track), and one recorded live on the Mitch Albom Show on WJR Radio in Detroit, Michigan.

The Search for the Red Dragon

Escaping him, the protagonists reach Neverland, where Daedalus reveals to them that the Underneath is divided into nine districts (as in Dante's Inferno), and asks them to become children themselves to better understand Hugh the Iron and William the Pig, the sons of Jason and the original Lost Boys.

The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig

The central figure of the pig has parallels with the great boars of Welsh-language literature and the Matter of Britain, particularly Twrch Trwyth in the 11th-century Welsh story of Culhwch and Olwen.

Turban Cowboy

Peter is invigorated by their jump and keeps up skydiving despite Lois' concern, even as his jumps usually result in accidents like falling on Meg at dinner, falling on a ninja that killed a woman, and falling on the castle of the Pig King from Angry Birds with only one pig left alive.

Whitchurch Canonicorum

Sir George Somers (1554–1610) was the Mayor of Lyme Regis and later Governor of The Somers Isles (Bermuda) he died "of a surfeit in eating of a pig", on November 9, 1610 in Bermuda.

Women's Bay

Womens Bay, Alaska, a census-designated place in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, in the United States

Yōichi Sai

In 1999 he shot The Pig's Retribution, a film set in the lavish natural scenery of Okinawa, inspired by the 1996 Akutagawa Prize-winning eponymous novel by Eiki Matayoshi.

Zhu Bajie

His Buddhist name "Zhu Wuneng", given by Bodhisattva Guanyin, means "pig (reincarnated) who is aware of ability," or "pig who rises to power", a reference to the fact that he values himself so much as to forget his own grisly appearance.


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